The Chu family meeting ended and Chu Feng and Chu Yuan returned to the place where they used to live.
“Father, I have one thing I want to ask you.” As father and son were alone in a room, Chu Feng opened his mouth to ask.
“Feng’er, if there is something, just say it.” Chu Yuan looked at Chu Feng, his gaze filled with doting love and pride.
Chu Feng’s performance had surprised him time and time again, and now that he had even saved the Chu Family, he had long since become the greatest pride in his heart.
Seeing this, Chu Feng did not drag his feet, but smiled and said the question he had always wanted to ask: “Father, who are my real parents, and why did they abandon me?”
“That,” as soon as Chu Feng said that, Chu Yuan, who had previously been filled with joy, suddenly froze, and a clear change emerged.
“Father, could it be that there is something unspeakable?” Chu Feng could see that something was wrong.
“No, nothing unspeakable, it’s just that, Feng’er, I know nothing about your parents.” Chu Yuan explained with a dry smile.
“You don’t know anything about them either? Does it mean that I was picked up by you?” Chu Feng was a little flustered.
Ever since he had met that unfathomably strong, yet insane caller in the ancient town in the wilderness, Chu Feng had felt that his origins were not simple, which was why he couldn’t wait to ask Chu Yuan this question.
But if Chu Yuan really did pick him up himself, then that would also mean that all clues were broken, and he would not be able to get any, information about his parents from Chu Yuan.
“No, it’s not like that, in fact, I took care of Feng’er because I was entrusted by someone.” Chu Yuan explained, but from his expression, one could tell that things didn’t seem to be non-that simple.
“Entrusted by someone? By whom exactly? And why does father know that that person is definitely not my parents?” Chu Feng eagerly pursued the question.
Looking at Chu Feng’s eager appearance, Chu Yuan’s face kept changing, as if he was having some sort of mental struggle, and finally sighed and said:
“Ai, since you want to know so much, I’ll tell you.”
“This matter starts fifteen years ago, that year I took a group of Chu family fellows on a trip and passed through a mountain forest on the way.”
“In the mountain forest, I met a man who was holding a child and asked me if my surname was Chu.”
“Because I was escorting goods at the time, and in addition to the man’s dress was really a bit suspicious, so I didn’t answer his question positively.”
“But who would have thought that the man didn’t even move before two of my men exploded into a pool of blood.”
“At that time, we were all terrified and wanted to turn and run, but there was an invisible aura that imprisoned us all and we couldn’t move at all.”
“Do you have the surname Chu? The man asked me again, and at that moment I realised that it was probably this man who had killed my Chu family members and imprisoned us.”
“But meeting such a powerful man for the first time, I was already full of fear, so how could I pay attention to his words and just stared at him in awe.”
“And at that moment, I was shocked to find that two flames suddenly appeared in his eyes, and at the same time, all the goods I was carrying were actually burnt by a ball of flame, even the cart and the horses, and were turned into ashes in just an instant.”
“At this point, he was already showing impatience, and I could clearly feel the killing intent he was giving off, it was the most terrifying killing intent I had ever felt in my life, as if he was from hell.”
“At that time I felt that I was already bound to die, but he did not make a move against me, but spoke again and said: I will ask one last time, do you have the surname Chu?”
“This time, I didn’t dare to hesitate any longer and hurriedly answered his question and told him my family’s situation and where the Chu family lived.”
When he said this, Chu Yuan was filled with guilt, and Chu Feng was able to guess why he felt guilty, naturally because of his greed for life and death at the time, and felt guilty for giving up everything about the Chu family.
After all, if that man had a grudge against the Chu family, Chu Yuan’s words would have betrayed the Chu family completely, and everyone in the Chu family would have escaped death, but now that all the people of the Chu family were still there, then it meant that the man should have had another purpose.
“Father, what happened then?” Chu Feng was desperate to know the outcome.
“Afterwards, he killed all the fellows who accompanied him, leaving me alone, and entrusted me with that child, and that child was you.”
“After I received you, that man told me that I must raise you well and treat you as if you were my own, but your name, however, could not be given by me, it had to be Chu Feng.”
“This.”
At this moment Chu Feng’s heart was greatly shocked, even though he had guessed from the beginning that the child might be him, his heart was still astonished at this moment, because he could never have imagined that his name was not given by Chu Yuan, but had been given from early on.
Especially when he thought of the man who had repeatedly asked Chu Yuan questions, it was not difficult for Chu Feng to think that his biological father was probably also surnamed Chu, and entrusting him to Chu Yuan was probably just because he did not want Chu Feng to change his surname.
“At that time, how could I dare to refuse, and naturally I agreed with a full promise.”
“Only, he made a few more demands, that you must not be told where you came from, nor that you are my own, and that you must be told from the beginning that you are my righteous son. The main thing is that nothing must be done to harm you, and you must be allowed to grow up healthy.”
“And whichever request is violated, the result will be one, and that is that he will exterminate the entire Chu family, leaving no room for error.”
Chu Yuan told the truth, and Chu Feng finally knew why Chu Yuan never spoke of Chu Feng’s birth without him asking, and that when Chu Feng asked about his own birth, Chu Yuan would be so uneasy, even afraid, that someone had been threatening him all along.
“Father, do you know what that man’s name is, and in his body, could there be any special markings?” Chu Feng asked intensely, for he vaguely had the answer in his mind.
“He didn’t say what his name was, but at his forehead, there was indeed a strange birthmark, like a flame, which was very bizarre.” Chu Yuan said back.
At that moment, Chu Feng, on the other hand, looked rather calm, for it was similar to the answer he had guessed, that his birth was indeed related to that caller from that day.
“Father, did he say anything after that? Did he mention anything about my parents?”
“No, he did not mention your parents to me.”
“Then why did you say, again, that he could not have been my father?”
Hearing this, Chu Yuan closed his eyes and took a deep breath before he slowly spoke, “Because when he handed you over to me, he was relieved as if he had been freed from a heavy burden, and quickly changed into a different person, shouting out as if he had gone mad.”
“I still fondly remember the crazy words he spoke then.”
“What did he say?” Chu Feng was impatient.
“He shouted to the sky: you see, I’ve done what you said, can you let me go, I beg you to let me go!!!”